“One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home”
___________________________________________
Eric you siad youirself “those who were brought to this country as children” so they came from some other home meaning THEY DO HAVE ANOTHER HOME THAT THEY KNEW AT SOME TIME
as for punishing them “for the mistakes of their parents” do you really dismiss the criminal action of crossing our borders illegally and then just staying here as a mistake ???
Anyhoo when the children reach 18 they are not connected to their parents crimes AKA “misttakes” If they are still in our country as adults they are now illegal aliens in their own right so to speak, they are causing their own crime of illegally being here errr again “mistakes”
Gosh those bank robbers just made a mistake yer oner sir...
Well if they were 5 when brought here and are now 20 then they only know one home here esp after getting 13 years of public school here. If they were 17 then its different .
If bank robbers brought their 6 year old kid with them on the robbery few would call for prosecuting them at 20 because 'now they are adults',.
And less would take them serious.
Now maybe if the US deported them and relatives soon as they came over starting 40 years ago it might work, but now after years of this as well as Reagan amnesty you got many millions of legal hispanic voters who dont take kindly to those running for election calling those who they see 'look and sound just like them' 'criminals' because they were brought olong on those robbery's at 6. You see how well 'self deportation' worked for Mitt in the general.
I'd be thankful if we successfully just keep them from voting.